Anemocarpa from the Greek 'anema' meaning without a thread and 'carpos' meaning fruit; referring to the absence of hairs on the achenes. Podolepidium from the Greek 'podos' meaning a foot and 'lepis' meaning a scale.

Distribution:

Found in the north-western part in South Australia, growing in open low arid shrub communities on sandy sometimes rocky soil and on gibber plain often with underlying clay. Also found in the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales.

Status:

Native. Common in South Australia. Common in the other states.

Plant description:

Bushy perennial herb to 20 cm high and up to 30 cm with white-woolly branches. Leaves spathulate to 90 mm long and 25 mm wide, grey-green and felty. Rayless yellow daisy flower on a long stalk. Flowering between September and November.

Fruit type:

Large daisy head containing numerous seeds.

Seed type:

Oblong, pale brown achenes to 2 mm long and less than 0.5 mm wide with feathery pappus to 8 mm long.

Embryo type:

Spatulate fully developed.

Seed collecting:

Collect heads that are large, fat, drying off and turning brown.

Seed cleaning:

Place the heads in a tray for a week to dry. Then rub the heads gently with your hands to dislodge the seeds. Viable seeds will be long fat and hard. Store the seeds with a desiccant such as dried silica beads or dry rice, in an air tight container in a cool and dry place.

Seed viability:

From one collection, the seed viability was very low, close to 0%. This maybe due to timing of seed collection (too early before seed is fully developed.

Seed germination:

Seeds are non-dormant, viable seed should germinate readily.

Seeds stored:

Location

No. of seeds(weight grams)

Numberof plants

Datecollected

Collection numberCollection location

Datestored

% Viability

Storagetemperature

BGA

No viable seed

2

20-Aug-2010

KHB456Flinders Ranges

1-Jan-2012

NCT

-18°C

Location: BGA — the seeds are stored at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, MSB — the seeds are stored at the Millennium Seed Bank, Kew, England.Number of plants: This is the number of plants from which the seeds were collected.Collection location: The Herbarium of South Australia's region name.% Viability: Percentage of filled healthy seeds determined by a cut test or x-ray.